Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

Sony Corporation

Tomoharu Maeno

Masahiro Shimizu

Nobuyuki Kitazaki

Nobuya Matsubara

Toshiaki Satoh

Tomoki Kurasawa

Shohei Suzuki

Tomokazu Suzuki

An electronic apparatus has a display section displaying an image in a predetermined resolution. The apparatus includes a fetching section fetching image data, a processing section processing the form of characters of character data to be added to the image data fetched by the fetching section, a synthesis section synthesizing the image data fetched by the fetching section and the character data whose character form has been processed, an output section outputting the image data out of the apparatus to display the image in a resolution different from the predetermined resolution, and an output control section for outputting the image data synthesized by the synthesis section to the display section and output section. The processing section processes the form of characters of the character data according to the resolution of the image to be displayed at the destination to which the data are output by the output control section.

Electronic apparatus for synthesizing image data and character data and method of controlling the electronic apparatus

Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to identifying an address of user data to be registered as a defective user data address in disk defect inspection. In an embodiment of the present invention, in the state where a write element is positioned to a target position to execute data write processing to execute normal data read processing, a write element executes data write processing. If a predefined error occurs during the data write processing, an address of user data for which the normal data write processing is executed is estimated using the error-causing servo data as a target. In addition, an address of the servo data used as the target during the normal data write processing for the estimated address of the user data is identified. If the identified address of the servo data and the address of the error-causing servo data match with each other, the estimated address of the user data is registered as a defective user data address.

Recording disk drive and method of managing defective regions in the same

A mechanism to allow accurate control of the position of a magnetic head even if the state of the magnetic head has changed due to instability.

Positioning control mechanism for a magnetic head in a magnetic storage device

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tomoharu Maeno